Re: Lenovo Vantage Battery Conservation mode gone? Help

‎02-13-201806:59 AM

All,

Sorry for this trouble. This is a defect in Lenovo System Interface Foundation, not in Lenovo Vantage. To fix the problem, you have to patch Lenovo System Interface Foundation, or else wait until we release the next version. If you want to patch it, here are the instructions:

First, please download IdeaNoteBookPlugin.zip from one of the following links. These links are pointing to the same files, so you only need to download one. If one of the links doesn't work for you, try the other one.

Once you have IdeaNoteBookPlugin.zip, extract it to your desktop or some other folder that you can remember. Then:

1. Close Lenovo Vantage

2. Open Task Manager. (If you never run Task Manager before, you have to click on "More Details") Then click on "Services" tab.

3. Sort the list of services by name, then find "ImControllerService". Right-click on it, then stop it.

4. Open File Explorer. Navigate to "C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\ImController\Plugins". Note that "C:\ProgramData" is a hidden folder, so you have to type this path into the File Explorer, or else configure File Explorer to show hidden files.

5. Find the "IdeaNotebookPlugin" folder, and delete this folder.

6. Copy the IdeaNotebookPlugin folder that you extracted from the .zip, to "C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\ImController\Plugins". Basically you want to replace the folder that you deleted in step 5, with the new folder.

7. When you are done, you should have "C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\ImController\Plugins\IdeaNotebookPlugin" and inside this folder should be "x64", "x86", and "PluginManifest".

8. Reboot the PC

9. Run Vantage, is the setting back? If not, may need to close Vantage and then open it again.

Re: Lenovo Vantage Battery Conservation mode gone? Help

Sorry for this trouble. This is a defect in Lenovo System Interface Foundation, not in Lenovo Vantage. To fix the problem, you have to patch Lenovo System Interface Foundation, or else wait until we release the next version. If you want to patch it, here are the instructions:

First, please download IdeaNoteBookPlugin.zip from one of the following links. These links are pointing to the same files, so you only need to download one. If one of the links doesn't work for you, try the other one.

Once you have IdeaNoteBookPlugin.zip, extract it to your desktop or some other folder that you can remember. Then:

1. Close Lenovo Vantage

2. Open Task Manager. (If you never run Task Manager before, you have to click on "More Details") Then click on "Services" tab.

3. Sort the list of services by name, then find "ImControllerService". Right-click on it, then stop it.

4. Open File Explorer. Navigate to "C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\ImController\Plugins". Note that "C:\ProgramData" is a hidden folder, so you have to type this path into the File Explorer, or else configure File Explorer to show hidden files.

5. Find the "IdeaNotebookPlugin" folder, and delete this folder.

6. Copy the IdeaNotebookPlugin folder that you extracted from the .zip, to "C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\ImController\Plugins". Basically you want to replace the folder that you deleted in step 5, with the new folder.

7. When you are done, you should have "C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\ImController\Plugins\IdeaNotebookPlugin" and inside this folder should be "x64", "x86", and "PluginManifest".

8. Reboot the PC

9. Run Vantage, is the setting back? If not, may need to close Vantage and then open it again.

HI! Good news! it has worked and conservation mode has returned! Thank you very much! Now I just hope this really is the fix you did and we'll not lose it anymore again!

Re: Lenovo Vantage Battery Conservation mode gone? Help

Your first screenshot "Vantage has Encountered a problem" shows something wrong that is not at all related to the patch.

If you did other things to try to fix this problem previously, you may need to undo them. Also, please double-check the version of the file at "C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\ImController\Plugins\IdeaNoteBookPlugin\x64\IdeaNotebookPlugin.dll", it should be 1.2.59.17 after a successful patch.